EXPECTANT
synopsis
If we look up the word expectante in a Spanish-English dictionary, we learn it is an adjective which can be translated as “expecting” or “biding one's time”. It is no accident this single-word title belongs to an disconcerting Peruvian film which takes its audience to a darkened city where a group of friends is spending an evening of leisure. Even though the neighborhood they live in is a relatively safe one, their locked doors and gates provide no more than an illusion of safety, which is a thought applicable world wide. The distant black-and-white camera through which the audience observes the plot seems to be biding its time for a chance to attack.
international title: | Expectant |
original title: | Expectante |
country: | Portugal, Peru |
year: | 2018 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Farid Rodríguez Rivero |
film run: | 77' |
screenplay: | Farid Rodríguez Rivero |
cast: | Jean Pierre Seminario, Fiama Silva Portugal, Luis Ciudad, Emily Patazca, Jesús Santa Cruz |
cinematography by: | César Fe, Farid Rodríguez Rivero |
film editing: | Farid Rodríguez Rivero |
production: | Feelart Company (PE) |